McCampbell v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2003
23 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]f there is no administration upon the estate of the defendant, and the facts show that none is necessary or desired by those interested in his estate, and especially if, owing to the lapse of time, the statute forbids the grant of administration upon his estate, and the heirs are in possession of his property, they are in such sense the representatives of their ancestor, that a pending action may be revived or an original suit brought against them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Casillas v. Cano“When revived [the action] must be regarded as pending from the date of its original institution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.